Untitled - Saints' Books

474 Index.
well, 273. When one may shorten the thanksgiving to go to
hear confessions, 429.
CONFIDENCE with which sinners should be animated, 21 Our faults
should not make us lose confidence, 318, 436. Confidence that
one should have in the Blessed Virgin, 414.
CONFORMITY to the will of God, a principal means of sanctifying one s
self, 403, 441.
CONTEMPT must be borne, 320, 330; those that love God are de
lighted when receiving contempt, 334.
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DEATH, we should wish for it in order to go promptly to heaven and
to be delivered from the danger of losing it, 442. We should
assist the dying, 181, 193.
DESIRE for perfection, first means of sanctifying one s self, 391. De
sire for death, 442.
DESOLATIONS, spiritual, they cannot prevent us from making medi
tation, 293.
DIGNITY of the priest, 23, 154; see Priest.
DIRECTOR, spiritual, one should obey him as one obeys God, 357,
358, 434-
DISTRUST of one s self, necessary to evangelical laborers, 315.
DRESS of priests, should be modest, 373, 435.
ELOQUENCE simple and popular, the most profitable manner of preach
ing, even when the people are well instructed, 269; see Preach
ing.
END of the priesthood, 39, and of the works of the priest, 19, 177,
217, 267.
END, final, the people as well as priests, should often be put in mind
of it, 20.
EXAMPLE, or good example which the priest must give, 62, 140, 230,
239, 266, 451, 454.
EXAMPLES quoted: the respect that princes should show to the priest,
30; even the angels honor him, 31; the saints dreaded the
sacerdotal office, 39, 186; zeal for the salvation of souls, 170;
reward of this zeal, 174; zeal in regard to the saying of Mass,
228; scandal given by saying Mass without devotion, 221, and
without making thanksgiving, 226; tepidity in the service of God,
100; blindness of the soul produced by an impure passion, 116;
punishment of this vice, 117, 119; means to conquer it, or the